According to the yin and yang theory, the material world is divided into yin and yang and the five elements, but some are obvious and some are not. Chinese characters are no exception. When we choose names, we focus on the obvious and main ones. Those that are not obvious can be considered neutral. Of course, there are also five elements attributes under subdivision, but the effect will be weaker and can be ignored. It's like the relationship between a sesame seed and a sesame seed. Neutral characters can be combined and matched with other five-element characters at will. The five-element attributes of Chinese characters were already formed when the characters were created. Because Chinese characters are hieroglyphs, which have both form, spirit and meaning. They are derived from natural images and are a high-level summary and condensation of natural phenomena. Therefore, when Chinese characters were born, they were already endowed with corresponding five-element attributes. They embody the attributes of the five elements in different ways. Some Chinese characters are embodied by shape, some by expression, and some by meaning. For example, water means water that flows endlessly, and three rivers means miao. The Chinese character for water must have the five elements of water; and wood is an upright pole. Two trees form a forest, and three trees form a forest. The Chinese character for wood means wood. It must have the five-element attributes of wood; one fire is the burning appearance, the second fire is the heat, the third fire is the flame, the Chinese character means fire, it must have the five-element attributes of fire; one earth is the earth, the second earth is the key, and the third earth is For Yao, the Chinese character has earth, and it must have the five-element attributes of earth; one gold is Dan, and the three golds are Xin, and the Chinese character has gold, and it must have the five-element attributes of gold. But now there are many misunderstandings when using Chinese characters in names. Some people distinguish the five elements of Chinese characters according to the number of strokes. For example, they believe that Chinese characters ending in 1 and 2 belong to wood, Chinese characters ending in 3 and 4 belong to fire, and characters ending in 3 and 4 belong to fire. The Chinese characters whose endings are 5 and 6 belong to earth, the Chinese characters whose endings are 7 and 8 belong to gold, and the Chinese characters ending in 9 and 0 belong to water. According to this principle of distinction, the water character drawn in the 4 strokes is naturally classified as fire. If it is said that the water character belongs to fire, I believe most people will not agree because it goes against the laws of nature. If this is the case, Distinguishing, the original attributes of many Chinese characters have been reversed by black and white, so this method of distinction is obviously very absurd. Another method is to distinguish the five elements attributes of Chinese characters according to the numbers represented by the Bagua directions. For example, in the Bagua, the Zhengbeikan hexagram is 1, so the hexagram belongs to water, so 1 is listed as water. All Chinese characters whose endings are 1 are all listed as water. Another example is that the hexagram Zhengnanli is 9. Therefore, the hexagram belongs to fire, so 9 is classified as fire. Then all Chinese characters ending in 9 are classified as belonging to fire... This method of differentiation is wrong from the source. . Because the attributes of the five elements of the Bagua are determined by their orientation, which is consistent with the attributes of the five elements used in the Bazi and other disciplines, the east belongs to wood, the south belongs to fire, the west belongs to metal, the north belongs to water, and the center belongs to earth. The numbers used in Bagua are special numbers of Bagua itself and have their own special meanings. The properties of these numbers are completely different from the properties of numbers used in subjects such as BaZi and they cannot be confused. The correct ways to distinguish Chinese characters are the following three: 1. Distinguish the five-element attributes of Chinese characters according to their radicals. In Chinese characters, characters with a grass head next to wood belong to wood; characters with gold or jade characters belong to gold; characters with fire and sun belong to fire; characters with earth and mountain belong to earth. This method mainly uses the radicals of Chinese characters Radicals are used to define the five elements of Chinese characters. 2. Distinguish the five elements attributes of Chinese characters according to their phonology. The method of classifying the five elements of phonology according to the pronunciation of Chinese characters is very complicated. Although some people have studied it in ancient times, it is not applicable in daily life and cannot achieve good results, so it is gradually lost. 3. Distinguish the five elements attributes of Chinese characters according to their connotative meanings. Some Chinese characters have the radicals metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, which are easier to distinguish. However, there are many Chinese characters that do not have these radicals, so the distinction must be based on the connotation and meaning of the Chinese characters. For example, for the word "Li", some software tests the five elements of gold, some software tests wood, and some software tests water. A common problem with the five elements of Chinese characters measured by the software is that no matter what character it is, there is only one five elements. So we use the meaning of the Chinese characters to analyze the five elements of the character "Li". The character "Li" is a common surname. Of course, no one uses surnames to define the five elements. , can only be defined by the meaning of the word "李". The word "李" above it means "wood", and its own meaning is also "plum tree", so it is still wood. From this, the main five behaviors of the word "李" are determined. Wood, its lower half is Zi, Zi is water, thus defining the main five elements of the character "Li" as wood, and the secondary five elements as water. Finally, the five elements of the character "Li" are defined as the attribute of "wood", but inside Contains water.